You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss. Jodi Picoult More Quotes by Jodi Picoult More Quotes From Jodi Picoult To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell. Jodi Picoult keyslosschildren For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. Jodi Picoult language-of-lovelanguagememories Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. Jodi Picoult lonelyinspirationallife It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. Jodi Picoult twobelievelying There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right. Jodi Picoult inspirationaltwopeople You can touch everything and be connected to nothing. Jodi Picoult connected the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together. Jodi Picoult shouldtogetherletters Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board. Jodi Picoult boardsimpossiblelooks She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting. Jodi Picoult beautifulinteresting Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to. Jodi Picoult womengirlhome Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. Jodi Picoult selfmeanpast That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much? Jodi Picoult paradoxgoneloss The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. Jodi Picoult bamboobelievefirsts My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. Jodi Picoult mothers-daybeautifullove They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again. Jodi Picoult viewslooksway The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come. Jodi Picoult lone-wolffocuslost It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it. Jodi Picoult kindnessinspirationalpeople The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. Jodi Picoult coalpainpast Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them. Jodi Picoult sightmistakememories When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires. Jodi Picoult dadfirefather
